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Strategic Meetings Management – The Intersection of Meetings, Travel and Procurement
This presentation will cover all the critical issues surrounding meetings management within the industry today: from selling a Strategic Meetings Management Program to executives to meetings risk and compliance to the recently launched SMM Maturity Model. Understand current industry trends and the increasing convergence of procurement with meetings. Review the various components of a best-in-class SMMP as well as a level by level breakdown of the SMM Maturity Model to assess where you are and where you can mature your program. Rounding off the presentation is how your company can take this information and present it to key stakeholders to gain executive buy in and support.
Outcomes:
- Learn how your company can mitigate risk by establishing a meetings policy, establish procurement processes & comply with industry rules and regulations. See how SMM can save your company more than just money & gain insight into various types of risk
- Arm yourself with the information you’ll need to gain executive buy-in to jump start your SMMP. Learn how to identify key stakeholders & build the business case to manage meetings. Be prepared with the right information to gain executive’s attention.
- Understand where your company is in the SMM space through the Maturity Model. Leverage the model to upgrade your company to the next level and advance to a more mature SMMP.
The Speaker
 Kevin Iwamoto is a widely recognized business travel industry leader with more than twenty years of experience managing global corporate travel and meetings programs. He was President and CEO of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) and the GBTA Foundation from 2001 to 2003, where he created and launched the GBTA Groups and Meetings Committee and cofounded the global Paragon Partnership organization, forging a relationship between the GBTA and MPI.
Prior to joining StarCite in 2008, Iwamoto spent over ten years at Hewlett-Packard, where as Senior Global Travel Commodity Manager he oversaw development, policy creation, strategy, and supplier management for various global travel spend categories over his tenure, including airlines, car rental, corporate and meetings card, meetings, hotels, and ground transportation.
About StarCite, Inc.
StarCite, Inc. provides a technology platform that makes meetings and event planning, booking and management simpler and more cost-effective for corporations, hotels, venues and meetings suppliers worldwide. StarCite delivers visibility, cost savings and control over meetings spending for businesses and enhanced revenue opportunities for suppliers. Through Web-based, on-demand technology, StarCite automates and supports every key element of the meetings planning and procurement process: planning, budgeting, buying, marketing and managing attendees, payment, and results measurement. Using StarCite’s proprietary online marketplace, meetings buyers can connect and conduct business with over 83,000 hotels, venues, destinations and suppliers globally. StarCite is based in Philadelphia, PA and has offices worldwide. Its equity holders include Internet Capital Group (NASDAQ: ICGE), TPG Growth, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), and TL Ventures. For more information about StarCite please visit www.starcite.com.
Meeting Location
 The Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center, a unique venue that offers unconventional beauty in a setting of grand historic architecture with abundant logistical advantages and first class service. The building remains the only southern railroad station in the nation that has been converted into a state-of-the-art convention center. Spacious pre-function and public areas with windows of natural light are refreshing during coffee breaks yet intimate and engaging for networking and social interaction.
The Center features 78,000 square feet of exhibit space divisible into two separate halls with 33 foot ceilings. Designed for multiple room set options, there are 22 meeting rooms of combined space to accommodate various meeting requirements. The Grand Lobby, the most prized jewel, boasting 75 foot ceilings and exquisite walls of marble is an event space where you can entertain your most important clients or host the most glamorous black tie events all while overlooking the grand fountain and expansive terminal columns.
The Center is managed by SMG, an organization that specializes in the operation of public facilities. Their management experience encompasses over 222 properties throughout the United States and Europe.
With the selection of this destination, you will have the opportunity to experience a place where trains once ran on time and conventions, tradeshows, banquets and meetings now run like clockwork.
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